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animal production

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animal production
the technology applied to the keeping of animals for profit. Includes feeding, breeding, housing and marketing. Of great importance is the making of the financial arrangements necessary to the successful carrying out of each enterprise in the light of the market conditions for the sale of the end products.

animal production data
include milk production, race times for distances, annual egg production weighted for age, clean wool yield, pig litter size, annual pigs weaned per sow. Includes raw data and analyses of indexes used as measures of performance and as targets in production systems.
animal production systems
include the categories of extensive, ranch, irrigation, dryfarming, intensive, factory farming, pastoral, feedlot, permanent housing, breeding establishments, fattening farms, flying herds.


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He said the animals are the main source of income of the poor people of rural areas and the government has launched many projects to facilitate the breeders with a view to bring down poverty ratio in rural areas and raise the animal production at national level.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Late last April, the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (PCIFAP) released the findings from its 2 1/2-year study on the current state of the meat industry, called "Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America.
Researcher Danielle Nierenberg said: "Factory farming methods are creating a web of food safety, animal welfare and environmental problems around the world as large agribusinesses attempt to escape tighter environmental restrictions in the European Union and the United States by moving their animal production operations to less developed countries.
 
 
 
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